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The Causal Effects of Education on Adaptability

Riddell, W. Craig; Song, Xueda - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009

This study investigates the causal effects of education on individualsâ€™ adaptability to employment shocks … re-employment following unemployment. Given that the positive correlation between education and adaptability is likely to … variables to assess the causal effects of education on adaptability. Based on data from the Canadian Census and the Labour Force …

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Climate policies, labor markets, and macroeconomic outcomes in emerging economies

Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Nuguer, Victoria - 2023

We study the labor market and macroeconomic effects of introducing a carbon tax in the energy sector in emerging economies (EMEs) by building a framework with equilibrium unemployment and firm entry that incorporates key elements of the distinct employment and firm structure of EMEs. Our model...

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The Macroeconomic Effects of a Carbon Tax to Meet the U.S. Paris Agreement Target: The Role of Firm Creation and Technology Adoption

Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2021

We analyze the quantitative labor market and aggregate effects of a carbon tax in a framework with pollution externalities and equilibrium unemployment. Our model incorporates endogenous labor force participation and two margins of adjustment influenced by carbon taxes: firm creation and green...

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Offshoring and jobs: The myriad channels of influence

Groizard, Jose L.; Ranjan, Priya; Rodriguez-Lopez, Antonio - In: European Economic Review 72 (2014) C, pp. 221-239

Offshoring reallocates jobs inside firms, between firms, and across sectors, affecting the economy-wide unemployment rate. We study these channels in a model with labor market frictions and two sectors—a differentiated-good sector comprising heterogeneous firms that can offshore, and a...

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Endogenous age discrimination

Manger, Christian - In: Journal of Population Economics 27 (2014) 4, pp. 1087-1106

This paper shows that hiring discrimination against old workers occurs in imperfect labour markets even if individual productivity does not decrease with age and in the absence of a taste for discrimination. Search and informational frictions generate unemployment, with less productive workers...

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Endogenous labor market institutions in an open economy

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - In: International Review of Economics & Finance 23 (2012) C, pp. 30-45

The paper sets up a two-country asymmetric trade model with heterogeneous firms, search frictions and endogenous labor market institutions. Countries are linked by trade in goods and non-cooperatively set unemployment benefits to maximize national welfare. We show that more open and smaller...

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Minimum Wage Shocks, Employment Flows and Labor Market Frictions

Dube, Arindrajit; Lester, T. William; Reich, Michael - Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE), … - 2013

We provide the first estimates of the effects of minimum wages on employment flows in the U.S. labor market, identifying the impact by using policy discontinuities at state borders. We find that minimum wages haveÂ sizeable negative effect on employment flows but not stocks. Separations and...

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The risk-premium channel of uncertainty : implications for unemployment and inflation

Freund, Lukas; Lee, Hanbaek; Rendahl, Pontus - 2022

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The real effects of financial disruptions in a monetary economy

Gabrovski, Miroslav; Geromichalos, Athanasios; … - 2023

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Heterogeneity in labor mobility and unemployment flows across countries

Créchet, Jonathan - In: European economic review : EER 155 (2023), pp. 1-34

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